Government resorts to desperate steps! Inflation rate hits a two year high of 6.73%.It was just less than half this rate last year this time. Inflation can be a good thing, if it is at a moderate rate. Inflation keeps prices on the upswing and that is a lot of incentive for a lot of…
Category: Agriculture
Gap widening from Delhi to the grassroots!
There was this delightful column: Lunch with FT! The fun-like but more insightful column in the famed London Financial Times weekend review. This time it was with one 25-year old heir apparent of the famous Italy’s Fiat Empire! An interview with the heir of the biggest industry conglomerate! What he said? The dashing youngman, very…
CPM’s dilemma in West Bengal!
Its past sins visit its present predicaments? Now, Mr.Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tells, as he did to the NDTV, that there is a generational change, village youths don’t want to engage in agriculture and they want non-agri jobs. That can be created, as the CM said only through rapid industrialisation. Now, Rs.25,000 crore worth of investments are…
C.K.Prahalad breaks new ground in agri reforms!
Policy is not working! Logistics could break the impasse in agriculture! Who believes the Central government when it says it can reform agriculture? Agri reforms is much tougher, it seems, than we imagined, to be a much more a high priority of the economic reforms. Even in economic reforms we don’t see any unity of…
Indian agriculture’s future
May be the market forces would decide the new agri policy! There is a mistaken view, shared by many sections, the government, the NGOs and the industry that Indian agriculture would somehow become like the US model. It won’t and it shouldn’t. This has to be understood. There are so many reasons to worry about…
CPM’s dilemma in West Bengal!
Its past sins visit its present predicaments? The Stalinist cult of “collectivised” agriculture, call it by what name you like, that had entrenched the idlers in the vilages, panchayats and land holding patterns! Who said agriculture is not important? But the CPM in W.Bengal always touted its land reforms as the end of all socio-economic…
Pull up the PSU banks priorities!
Govt. must ban PSU bank ads with the PM/FM letters and photos! Farm debt write-offs should be followed by sustained farm credit systems. A PSU bank celebrating 100 years or some such events using the PM/FM letters and photos on full pages in all national dailies must have costed the bank several lakhs of rupees!…
India’s agriculture’s future
May be the market forces might dictate the new agri policy!There are so many reasons to worry about the Indian agri crisis.This sector fails to respond to the many pious hopes(yes,there is no visible active agri policy as such as of now) and there is a steady decline in all major crops.The outcome?An all-time high…